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Re: Mormon bashing again
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:52:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:

One that always does get me a bit of a laugh is that Massachusetts had
the "blue laws" longer than the south. They didn't START to be
dismantled totally until the 70s (in the late to mid 70s they broke down
and allowed stores to open on Sunday from Thanksgiving to Christmas, and
then only after 1:00 PM or some such).

They finally figured out that "banned in Boston" made the book they were
banning a bestseller.  :-)

Bruce



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  Re: Mormon bashing again
 
(...) Hey, that's also what happened with Mark Twain's _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, from what I heard on a PBS program... --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Mormon bashing again
 
(...) One that always does get me a bit of a laugh is that Massachusetts had the "blue laws" longer than the south. They didn't START to be dismantled totally until the 70s (in the late to mid 70s they broke down and allowed stores to open on Sunday (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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